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Amnesia10
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Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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It is good that they have a kill switch then. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
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Well yes, but killing an app. after the event is rather like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
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phantombudgie
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:45 pm
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Hmm, can't wait to have McAffee eating up all my phone's processor and memory. They'll have to quadruple the RAM just to cope!
And since the majority of the viruses will still spread by people clicking "Yes" on the menu dialog "Do you want to download and run this dodgy software?" it will make very little difference.
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
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Location: /dev/tty0
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I reckon companies such as big as Apple and Google could sit down and review the code, sit and understand it. Apple especially could do this, so what if it slows the approval process more? Developers know that Apple will screw them around (not saying that's OK, just that people expect it). Perhaps developer documentation should be submitted as well to aid the company in approving the app.
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Amnesia10
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With the sheer number of apps that Apple alone have there is no way to check the code for all the apps. Though with the ability to kill apps makes up a for some of that short fall. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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ChurchCat
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:57 am
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Hmm. Has there actually been any malware on an iPhone. There defo has one the "open" iPhones that have been jailbroken but I don't know of any that have been bought from Apple. Surely I would have heard if Apple had hit the kill switch.  I am glad that Google have such a switch. Sorry that they have had to use it. Confused that they have not used it this time. Do all versions of Android have such a kill switch? Worth knowing before you buy your device. _________________A Mac user 
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okenobi
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:59 pm
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Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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This was my initial point. User stupidity is the single greatest problem. And the more tech you put in the hands of people who haven't learnt the hard way over the past 15yrs, the more it'll happen. There's 10x more juice in one of these phones than PCs had that long ago. That's nuts. They're proper computers now and need to be treated as such.
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
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Location: Bramsche
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Apple have deleted a couple of Apps for having back doors in them over the last couple of years...
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finlay666
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
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Location: Newcastle
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Hence the time, there is also no way to do it in means if a developer references a dll that they cannot access. And anyone who gives their code to Google/Apple has lost the plot. I wouldn't give my code to a large company and would obfuscate it etc to stop it being decompiled as much as I can _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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